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The Thought That Lingers: Part Ten Karl Constantine FOLKES	A son slaying his father Possessed by Theban curse Of Spartan...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
The Thought That Lingers: Part Eight Karl Constantine FOLKES	It led him to a Theban Sphinx who dared all passers by to solve her riddle at the risk of their own...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A British PHILIPPIC Mark Akenside	Come the bold Ardor of the Theban...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dorset Idyl Francis Turner Palgrave	O Theban strain,--remote and pure, Voice of the higher soul, that shames Our downward, dry, material...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle Addressed To Sir Thomas Hanmer, On His Edition Of Shakspeare's Works William Taylor Collins	Or paint the curse that mark'd the Theban's (1) reign, A bed incestuous, and a father...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Invitation to Dafnis Anne Kingsmill Finch	That drew the stones to the old Theban Wall, And make no doubt, if itt against him play, They, from his works, will fly as fast...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anelida and Arcite Geoffrey Chaucer	And when the wrecched Thebans, bretheren two, Were slayn, and kyng Adrastus hom ago, So desolat stod Thebes and so bare That...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Australasia William Charles Wentworth	Where not the Theban eagle reach'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cadmus and Harmonia Matthew Arnold	And all that Theban woe, and stray For ever through the glens, placid and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Canto 1 Ezra Pound	Anticlea came, whom I beat off, and then Tiresias Theban, Holding his golden wand, knew me, and spoke first: "A second...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Canto I Ezra Pound	Anticlea came, whom I beat off, and then Tiresias Theban, Holding his golden wand, knew me, and spoke first: "A second...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Canto I: And Then Went Down to the Ship Ezra Pound	Anticlea came, whom I beat off, and then Tiresias Theban, Holding his golden wand, knew me, and spoke first: "A second...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
First Anniversary Andrew Marvell	And joining straight the Theban tower arose; Then as he strokes them with a touch more sweet, The flocking marbles in a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Niobe In Distress For Her Children Slain By Apollo, From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VI. And From A View Of The Painting Of Mr. Richard Wilson Phillis Wheatley	Divine Latona's mandate to proclaim: The Theban maids to hear the orders ran, When thus Maeonia's prophetess began: 'Go,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode XIII: On Lyric Poetry Mark Akenside	Of liberty my genius gives command, Nor Theban...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Envy (From The Greek) William Cowper	Pity, says the Theban bard, From my wishes I discard; Envy, let...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Platonic 'Ideal' As It Was Understood By Aristotle. (Translated From Milton) William Cowper	Never the Theban Seer, whose blindness proved His best illumination, Him beheld In secret vision; never him...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Violet's Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill Sidney Lanier	Still blazed the two great Theban bucklers bright That swayed the random of that furious fight Where Palamon and Arcite made...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Orlando Furioso Canto 19 Ludovico Ariosto	Like Theban Creon, let their worst be done Upon these limbs; so that by me interred In earth be those...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Palamon And Arcite; Or The Knight's Tale. From Chaucer. In Three Books. Book II. John Dryden	Was all the Theban race in arms to join, And war on Theseus, till he lost his life, Or won the beauteous Emily...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Palamon And Arcite; Or, The Knight's Tale. From Chaucer. In Three Books. Book I. John Dryden	But Creon, old and impious, who commands The Theban city, and usurps the lands, Denies the rites of funeral fires to those Whose breathless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Psycholophon Gelett Burgess	Round her soft Theban...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Scene 3. A Cliff on the Breton Coast, Overhanging the Sea Adam Lindsay Gordon	Past or future, unsolved by Egyptian Or Theban, unspoken by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
September, 1819 William Wordsworth	ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ape Charles Lamb	The tale of Sphinx, and Theban jests I true in me perceive; I suffer riddles; death from dark Enigmas I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)